Debian Bug report logs - #531221
okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM by default

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Package: okular; Maintainer for okular is Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for okular is src:okular (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: John Goerzen <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 00:12:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Found in version kdegraphics/4:4.2.2-2

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From: Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]>
To: John Goerzen <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM
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John Goerzen dijo [Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:24:17AM -0500]:
> > Actually an advisory dialog (which could be turned off) would make some sense.
> > ("The author of this PDF document didn't mean to allow you $foo, do you want
> > to continue anyway?  Abort Continue")
> > 
> > Then a) you are aware that there are restrictions on the document, so if
> > you b) pass it on to people who cannot turn off DRM restrictions (like to
> > print it for you) you can take additional action to strip DRM.
> 
> That would seem a quite reasonable compromise to me, as a default
> option.  You can still have a checkbox in preferences for complete
> enforcement if there is somebody that really wants it, and leave it off
> by default.
> 
> What do you think, Pino?

I have seen arguments on this (very long) thread by Pino and other
members of the KDE team regarding the undeniable disadvantage of
having to maintain a patch basically forever. I have not seen
indication of this mailing reaching the upstream developers for Okular
— Yes, Pino is addressed at a @kde.org, but I understand he is
addressed as he is listed as the Debian maintainer for Okular. Has
this suggestion been pushed upstream? Don't you think we would do a
greater service to the KDE users if we convinced the authors instead
of just the Debian maintainers? (or at least, if we listened at their
arguments as well)

Greetings,

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